Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Tribute to Elisabeth Elliot

As a fellow Wheaton alumnus and someone that grew up walking by Saint and Elliot Halls, (poorly) did my gym class mile-run at McCully Field, and produced a church play honoring these missionaries (with the help of The Savage My Kinsman), we need to be thankful for the example of Elisabeth Elliot.

One of the most influential Christian women of the 20th century, Elisabeth Elliot, has died.

Elliot, the Christian author and speaker whose husband, Jim, was killed during their short-lived but legendary missionary work among unreached tribes in eastern Ecuador in the 1950s, passed away Monday at 88, accordingtoreports. She had been suffering from dementia. She wrote two books about her husband’s martyrdom and the years she and her newborn daughter spentliving among the Aucas, the tribe that killed him. HerThrough Gates of Splendorranked No. 9 on CT's list of theTop 50 books that have shaped evangelicals. The book became a bestseller, as didShadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testimony of Jim Elliot.